On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Eduardo E. Horvath eeh@btr.com wrote:
> I don't think that's much more secure because the password is visible on both
> the shell's command line and the chat command line at the time of connect.
> What I do is use chat -f <file> so none of the chat script is ever visible on
> a command line.
Yeah that's pretty good. Perhaps that should be put into the FAQ
somewhere. I skirt the problem because I think that nobody can possibly
log in over the network to see the password until PPP is already
connected. Except for the console of course... But using chat -f
solve's that. Thanks.
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